ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — Tina Morgan-Daxon says it was the worst phone call she ever had.

"They said two cars were racing, and they hit them," Daxon said Sunday of the hit-and-run crash that killed her 27-year-old daughter, Saniya Daxon, a day earlier.

"Whoever was driving that other car, they jumped out and ran and left my baby. She had to be cut out of the car."

Morgan-Daxon said her daughter was in the passenger seat of a vehicle that was slammed into by a stolen Mercedes at 9th Avenue South and 40th Street South in St. Petersburg. The driver of the stolen Mercedes the fled the scene, police say.

Saniya was taken to a hospital, where she was pronounced dead. The other woman, who was driving the Chevrolet Malibu in which she was riding, remained in intensive care Sunday.

Morgan-Daxon said her daughter — herself a mother of a toddler — was preparing to go into nursing school.

Now, Morgan-Daxon must concentrate on caring for her only daughter's 2-year-old son, whose birthday was Sunday.

"He doesn't know what's going on, but he knows she's not here," Morgan-Daxon said. "He hasn't seen her, and that's not common, because he's used to seeing her every day."

The family now just wants justice for Saniya.

"I hope that they catch them. I really do," Morgan-Daxon said. "I hope someone talks. I hope someone lets us know, or I hope someone turns themselves in."